Church of St Edward is a Grade I listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Church.

Church of St Edward

WRENN ID
silent-gutter-russet
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1960
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Edward, Shaugh Prior, South Hams
OS grid reference
SX 542 631
Coordinates
50.44969, -4.0539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Edward is a parish church dating from the 15th century that has not been heavily restored in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings, featuring a granite ashlar tower and slate roofs. The church includes a nave and a chancel that has a four-light Perpendicular style east window. There are long north and south aisles; the north aisle has straight-headed windows, three four-light south windows of 14th-century design, a three-light Perpendicular east window, and granite buttresses.

The south porch is two storeys high, with a moulded four-centred arch doorway, diagonal buttresses, a tall embattled parapet, and ribbed vaulting inside. The west tower is tall and consists of three stages, with set-back buttresses, a moulded base, string courses, and large octagonal crenellated and crocketted pinnacles. A polygonal stair turret is located on the south side of the tower. The tower features two-light four-centred arch bell-openings and a three-light Perpendicular west window above the west doorway, which has quatrefoils in the spandrels and a moulded label.

Inside, there are four-bay north and south arcades with wide four-centred double-chamfered arches supported by moulded monolithic granite piers with moulded capitals. The furnishings are mostly from the 19th century, except for a notable 16th-century front cover, restored in the 1870s, which is shaped like a two-storeyed lantern octagon with a conical top. The later chancel roof includes some 15th-century carved bosses, and there is a medieval altar stone at the west end.

Local climate

Church of St Edward sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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